The Register's Editorial: Feds get it right on Plan B access

1:58 AM,
Jun. 15, 2013

Worried woman

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The Register?s Editorial Board

The Obama administration has come to its senses about giving women access to emergency contraception. It is dropping a court appeal and will comply with a federal judge's ruling to make so-called Plan B available without a prescription to women and girls of any age.

Drugstores can now move forward with stocking and selling the drug. Young women will finally have another option to help prevent an unplanned pregnancy without visiting a doctor.

It is unfortunate Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius ever got involved with this issue in the first place. She overstepped her ...